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I hope people will remember sandisk changing drives without making new part numbers to be slower and crappier and generally avoid them. Don't support companies that do this and purchase a brand that is honest.Reply

I know I'm going to get bashed for saying this, but what's the big deal here with writing about drives we won't be able to purchase? Yes, this is a premier tech site, but it's not a business site. It's far more an enthusiasts site. So if we can't buy these products, they aren't of much interest. I would rather see articles and reviews about products we can buy.Reply

I wish they would actually add more SSD content that is "enterprise" or "business" oriented. I really want to see reviews of the Samsung XS1715 NVMe PCIe SSD. Even an enthusiast would like to see how fast that drive is!Reply

You would be surprised how many of our readers are actually IT managers and others who are interested in products like the X300s. You don't usually see these people commenting to the posts as they email us directly. Reply

I'm one of these. I come here, read, and learn. This is my first comment ever, heh. It's good to see the author replying to comments, too. Regarding the observation that SSD is boring, and we need to remove the SATA bottleneck, I agree, but for some of us squeezing better performance from existing systems is very important, as it's a more cost effective way to proceed. I work in television program production. Eventually 4K video will force us to abandon all our current hardware, but until then, SSDs on SATA ports more than pay for themselves in time saved.Reply

Anandtech has always reviewed "business-related" hardware, it has never been solely about what the "enthusiast" would typically use. And - why wouldn't you be able to buy an X300s? Do you think you have to call yourself a business to purchase one?Reply

All of a sudden SSD is boring. We need to remove the major bottleneck which is SATA itself. And just uses something much more future proof then NGFF / M.2. Letting innovation magic happens on the controller.Reply

Nowadays endurance figures are based on 4KB random write workloads, hence the figures don't tell anything about the P/E cycles of the drive (write amplification is much higher with random writes than with sequential writes. I covered the calculation of TBWs in detail in a recent review: